AMTA 2024 - FINAL Call for Proposals (deadline extension: June 6, 2024)

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AMTA 2024 — Third and Final Call for Proposals

Papers and Presentations
Workshops and Tutorials (online)
AMTA Best Thesis Award

For AMTA 2024, a three-day event under the auspices of

the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Monday, 30 Sept 2024 through Wednesday, 2 Oct 2024

Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center  

Chicago, Illinois, USA 

 

The Board of Directors of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to announce the third and final call for papers and presentations, workshops and tutorials, and Best Thesis Award for AMTA 2024, the 16th biennial AMTA conference.

In a departure from past events, this year’s workshops and tutorials will be held online on September 18. The main conference will follow, running from September 30 to October 2, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

For more details, please refer to the following links:

Topics of interest might include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Latest advances in MT 
  • Using Large Language Models for translation, transcreation, and other cross-lingual use cases
  • Training Data: data sources, extraction, alignment, and cleaning of corpora, terminology, data augmentation, metadata extraction, multimodal data, etc.
  • Adaptation and customization of MT models or LLMs for cross-lingual use cases
  • Augmenting MT with ML, NLP or generative AI
  • Comparative evaluation of MT systems
  • MT for low resource languages
  • Model distillation, compression, and on-device MT
  • MT in production scenarios, robustness, and deployment issues.
  • MT for multiple modalities (speech, sign language, video, etc.)
  • MT for real-time communication (chats, social networks, etc.)
  • Integration of MT and related cross-lingual technologies in translation and localization pipelines
  • Output quality estimation and evaluation: tools, methods, and metrics, such as human evaluations, automatic scoring, and automatic annotation of MT output
  • Detecting and preventing catastrophic errors in output
  • Measuring fairness, bias, and transparency in output
  • Post-editing and human-in-the-loop methods: New approaches, successes and failures, applicability to different content-types, etc.
  • The interaction of language professionals (translators and interpreters) with MT and generative AI tools and output
  • Advanced MT fine-tuning and enhancement: including pre- and post-processing; controlling style, tone of voice, gender
  • Interactive and real-time adaptive MT systems: including advanced approaches to leverage TM and end-user feedback
  • Business Cases: making the business case for adopting MT and related cross-lingual technologies to drive business requirements
  • Ethics, policy, and regulatory trends concerning the use of MT or generative AI for cross-lingual use cases
  • Cross-language information retrieval
  • Source text improvement: improving the source content destined for MT through automatic tools such as grammar correction, guidelines, and NLP

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Important dates  

  • Submission deadline: 6 June 2024, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)
  • Notification of acceptance: 19 July 2024
  • Final “camera-ready” papers for proceedings: 16 August 2024
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Cecilia Yalangozian
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